HSI Science Grants

The Paddy Pallin Foundation,The Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife and Humane Society International offered six (6) Science Grants in 2013, worth up to $7000 each to support field‐based, high quality ecological research. The objective of the grant program is to provide financial support for conservation‐based research of Australian species and ecosystems that will ultimately lead to tangible outcomes for management. The scope of the research is open to terrestrial, marine and freshwater research on animals and/or plants and ecological communities as per the table below:

The grants are open to postgraduate students and Early Career Researchers (within 3 years of submitting PhD). Grants are administered through the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.

2011 Marine Science Grant Winner

Humane Society International (HSI) is pleased to announce the awarding of the second of its Marine Science Grants, awarded as part of the Paddy Pallin Foundation Science Grants Program. PhD candidate Matthew Heard of the Flinders University, an outstanding young scientist, has been awarded $7,000 to look at the vulnerability of Thresher sharks to the Australian commercial and recreational fisheries. Click here for more details.

To read Matthew Heard's report of his work so far as a result of HSI's grant, click here

2010 Marine Science Grant Winner

Humane Society International (HSI) is pleased to announce that Dr Peter Macreadie of the University of Technology Sydney, an outstanding young scientist, has been awarded $7,000 to look at the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems by examining seagrasses in Lake Macquarie and Tuggerah Lakes. Click here for more details

To read Peter Macreadie's report of his work as a result of HSI's grant click here